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Dictionary definition: Hadhramaut
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- Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names
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Hadhramaut (
Ḥaḍramawt
) Yemen
A governorate possibly meaning ‘Death was present’ from the Arabic
mawt
‘death’ and
ḥaḍhar
‘was present’;
ḥaḍhra
can mean ‘presence’ but is now used as a polite form of address. Thus the meaning of the ...